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    I strongly recommend walking - relaxing, improves fitness and physical and mental health...
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    LesR reacted to RJM's post in the thread Shirley Maclaine - The Camino - Swimming place with Like Like.
    One mustn't forget that in all likelihood she's just plain embellishing her Camino experience. Lying. Making things up. That's what writer's do. Makes it impossible to find a swimming hole that never existed in the first place. I highly doubt she...
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    LesR replied to the thread Language for camino portuguese?.
    Not suprising, given the Spanish royalty assumed control of Portugal in 1580 and it took 60 years before the Portuguese regained thier independence... (https://www.historytoday.com/archive/shotgun-marriage-spains-annexation-portugal)
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    LesR replied to the thread Language for camino portuguese?.
    My experience has been that saying "Eu não falo português. May we speak English?" works wonders. And Google Translate is a good Plan B...
  • LesR
    I read it end to end (prior to my first camino) and concluded that it was a complete book of fiction, and have no intention of ever opening it again....
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    LesR replied to the thread OK guys, what underwear?.
    The mind boggles...
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    LesR replied to the thread OK guys, what underwear?.
    I am on Bradypus;' side... well said. Being in Australia, my choice is Tradies 3/4 leg trunk - intially wore cotton/lyca version, and more recentlyfully synthetic versions. All dried readily overnight, did not result in chafing (to which I was...
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    LesR replied to the thread Where is this.
    Mea culpa...
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    LesR replied to the thread Where is this.
    https://redecilladelcamino.blogspot.com/2022/11/monumento-al-peregrino-en-redecilla-del.html Redecilla del Camino, just after Grannon
  • LesR
    I had a simialr problem in 2018 - had been told hat it was an EU requirement that SIMS cards work in all EU countries ... Went to to a phone shop not long after we entered Spain (maybe Vigo?), and was told the "it happens frequently". Bought...

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